Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I do n't think anyone let it in , I 'd guess the door was open or it had a key . ’
2 Or it pushes the tube out of shape .
3 If you 're feeling depressed after the event — you 've wasted so long and it 's now an anti-climax , or it proved a disaster — the practitioner would concentrate on your lungs and large intestinal area .
4 They can also perform a limited corporate finance function , and provide a mechanism for marketing shares in an unquoted company ( Newco ) , where otherwise the benefit to an employee of holding shares is somewhat illusory , in that he can not realise his shares for cash , unless he remains a shareholder of the company and ( usually ) an employee or director , until there is a sale of Newco or it obtains a listing .
5 Frequently a horse that habitually rears when it is mounted is also likely to rear every time it feels anxious , such as when it is passed by a truck on the road or it sees a monster ; but it is especially likely to rear when it is asked to stand still .
6 In practice , the follow-up is often too slow , or it misses the scoring areas , so a good opportunity is missed .
7 It hurt us , it hurt them and it hurt the sport .
8 And it solves the problem once and for all .
9 I help her to do this , and it takes no time at all .
10 Through subsidies the state has established a vast ‘ social salary ’ to make life easier for workers and it takes a pride in the extensiveness of the welfare system that has developed from this .
11 And it takes a man and a women to produce a child .
12 Something here is not quite as it should be , and it takes a while to work out exactly what it is …
13 This is called ‘ image ’ back-up , and it takes a while .
14 The ability to select propitious characters in Chinese is a fine art and it takes a student of great learning to transpose an English name into Chinese syllables which convey beauty both in the pictogram character and in meaning , and yet bear some semblance in sound to the original name .
15 We carve moulds in wood and it takes a craftsman with a spokes have a day to do each one .
16 And it takes a lot to light up the eyes of a man dying of tuberculosis .
17 If you are sitting in a very large house on your own , which is draining away your resources because it still has mortgage payments to be met and it takes a lot of money to heat and light every year , you must seriously consider cashing in on your assets by moving to a smaller house that eliminates your mortgage and cuts down on running costs , or by taking out an annuity on your house .
18 Erm I know it 's easier said than done sometimes but er it has to be your decision because even if you went ahead and were confirmed , we were tal talking about the idea of sometimes parents bring pressure on them on you to go ahead and do it and be confirmed , erm when perhaps you 're not do n't feel ready for it and it takes a lot of courage to stand up and say No I 'm not ready .
19 North estimates , for example , that if a company has 2,000 personal computers and it takes an average of one and a half hours per year to upgrade software on each of them , then company-wide , this activity takes a total 3,000 hours .
20 It does n't hurt because it 's pulled off so quickly , and when we pull it off , we put our finger straight over the area and it takes the sting away .
21 As a result Taos is object-oriented at a very fine level and it takes the idea of dynamic linking to its logical conclusion .
22 As a result Taos is object-oriented at a very fine level and it takes the idea of dynamic linking to its logical conclusion .
23 Enough and it takes the pain away , too much and you feel dopey .
24 It 's called FAXgrabber and it takes the fax and converts it into text which can be edited by any word-processor without the need for re-typing .
25 It may not be to women 's advantage , but it is there , and it acknowledges the power , albeit negative , of women 's cycles of fertility .
26 Its part is non-transposing and it possesses a compass of three octaves : .
27 This was the product of much research , which Macdonell thought poorly rewarded financially , but the book was admired by military experts and it illustrated the range of his abilities .
28 It developed into the small , but well-endowed parish of St. John the Baptist in Bedford and it escaped the destruction and confiscation of property that was the lot of monasteries and most hospitals during the Reformation .
29 It also wants a market in research , and it promises a mechanism for funding the excess costs of academic teaching and clinical research .
30 The title of Chapman and Greenaway 's history of government departments is The Dynamics of Administrative Reform ( 1980 ) , and it captures the ebb and flow of central government changes .
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